This has always been the case. There is a specific way that congress can put a check on POTUS. Liberals being told how the government works and has always worked, and suddenly getting upset. I'm sure they will vote harder then they have ever voted before to fix it this time.

This isn't limited to "gamers" though, if you are part of the privileged imperial core, you are indoctrinated to be a consumerist. Gamers just happen to consume games, but whether you are into cars, guns, pokemon, PC parts, phones, music, social media, clothes, or whatever other fad of the week is, the link isn't gaming, it's conspicuous consumption.

As far as the OP's questions about a pipeline leading to communism, I doubt it. People arrive at the immortal science of Marx by a myriad of paths, many that have nothing to do with their hobbies. Whereas a consumerist constantly has the status quo passively reinforced upon them at basically every aspect of society. It's impossible to escape, and the only refuge is constant examination through, at least, a socialist lens.

This is only a problem if you think the purpose of the pier was to provide aid to Gaza. If you understand that everything the US military does is simply to provide public money to private interests, then this is a completely unremarkable event.

Sounds like the problem here is the "government scrutiny" not steam.

The topography explains it all. https://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml

tl;dr The people of that area in East Africa naturally live close to sea level, however there are easily accessible elevations changes that distance runners have trained on for probably centuries. It turns out that training at high altitudes and recovering at low altitudes provides a tangible and demonstrable advantage compared to just single elevation training.

I doubt the US is trying to overthrow Netanyahu, but if they were, I'm glad of it.

What a garbage article. Elon sucks, the cyber truck sucks, but an article about tweets is less than worthless. Perhaps the article instead of assuming elon just "didn't have time to run tesla properly", should dig a bit deeper and demonstrate that tesla was successful despite elon, not because of elon. Same with Space-X or Star-link.

Now as far as why the cyber truck is getting stuck in snow, tires is the low-effort answer, but maybe look at the weight of the truck versus the contact area. Maybe look at how the traction control system works? How about whether the car is front wheel bias vs rear-wheel biased. Does it make assumptions about which wheels have contact to the ground? Does it have a differential or are all 4 wheels independently controlled? (I don't know the answer to any of these by the way, but if I were concerned about a vehicle getting stuck in the snow, I'd certainly want an analysis that addresses all of the above.)

Good. Only ~215 countries to go. No one should have normal interactions with Israel or anyone who supports Israel.

Perhaps if Europe claims to care about human rights so much, they should simply stop funding, supporting or otherwise enabling a genocidal state?

Hey Janet, is there anything else we can afford? Maybe health care?

It's just too expensive to save the planet. I'm glad that our governments were making the tough Choices, to continue burning coal and other fossil fuels because the economy just couldn't handle the burden of not growing by another 5% every year.

CO2 "offsets" have always been bullshit green washing. The only way to regulate emissions is by directly regulating emissions. Not coming up with elaborate loopholes.